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A strong thick rope, originally of hemp or other fibre, now also of strands of iron wire.
A kind of cable; (probably) = sheet, n.2 1a.
A rope, a cable, esp. one used on a ship. See also gable-rope n. at compounds.
a rope or cable; = sense 1.
= sense 1; (also) cable-laid rope.